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HOW TO SOLVE PROBLEMS ON PERMUTATIONS-LEARN SERIES

Hi Bankersdaily Aspirants,

IBPS RRB is going to be held shortly and you all know that even 1 mark is important for cracking the competitive exam.Aspirants,Aptitude Section is not that much tough as you think,There is trick to solve each problem in the Aptitude Section.And we are discussing each and every trick and shortcut for solving the Problems in each topic with its Possible Question from the Rudimentry level in which even Neophyte can crack the exam by looking at the article.

INTRODUCTION TO PERMUTATION:

Permutation is defined as the act of arranging all the members of a set into some sequence or order,if the set is already ordered,rearranging its elements,a process called permuting.This topic is also quite easy to solve and it is asked in 1 or 2marks in exam

In general P(n, r) means that the number of permutations of n things taken r at a time. We can either use reasoning to solve these types of permutation problems or we can use the permutation formula.

The formula for permutation is

Why we are moving for Permutation:

Lets consider an example:

1) 8 people(A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H) are participating in a Race and there were 3 Prizes Gold, Silver and Bronze .

Explanation:

For Gold the possibility=8 people

For Silver the possibility=7 people

For Bronze the Possibility=6 people

=8*7*6=336

But by using Permutation:(DISTINGUISHABLE ITEMS)

Let us consider we have n items and want to pick k items from it

The Formula P(n,k)

Therefore we have 8 items and we want to pick 3 items

n=8 k=3

=8!/(8-3)! =8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1/5*4*3*2*1 = 8*7*6=336

2)A license plate begins with three letters. If the possible letters are A, B, C, D and E, how many different permutations of these letters can be made if no letter is used more than once?

Explanation:

The problem involves 5 things (A, B, C, D, E) taken 3 at a time.

P(5,3)=5!/(5-3)!

=5!/2!

=(5*4*3*2*1)/(1*2)

=5*4*3 =60

There are 60 different permutations for the license plate.

TYPE 2:(INDISTINGUISHABLE ITEMS)

The number of different permutations of n objects where there are n1indistinguishable items, n2 indistinguishable items, … nk

Indistinguishable items, is

1)How many ways can the letters of the word MATHEMATICS be arranged?

In the Mathematics there are 11 letters in which M occur 2 times, T occur 2 times, A occur 2 times and the remaining word occur only once in the word Mathematics